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Untitled (Red Feather Flower)
Painting

2008
12 1/4 x 14 in. (31.12 x 35.56 cm)

Clare Rojas (Columbus, Ohio, 1976 - ) Primary

Object Type: Painting
Medium and Support: Acrylic on wood panel
Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds contributed by Barbara and William Hyland
Accession Number: 2013.09.05

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Show Your Work: Art and Math (2017-2018)

In her works Tulip Twins (2005) and Untitled (Red Feather Flower) (2008), Clare Rojas shows us examples of reflection symmetry: one half of a design is the mirror image of the other half. In the human brain, although symmetrical in appearance, the two hemispheres each perform a distinct set of actions, with the right side in control of visual processing and creativity, and the left, logic and math. Both sides of the brain are always active and their collaboration enables the disciplines of art and mathematics to be performed in tandem during the creative endeavor of artmaking.


Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection (2014)

Painter, filmmaker, and musician Clare Rojas develops a personal, esoteric folklore in her work with recurring characters that interact and travel through environments. Her whimsical panel paintings and drawings appear innocent enough at first glance, yet possess a fairy tale – like darkness beneath the surface. Rojas's unique visual vocabulary taps into San Francisco's short-lived but deep-rooted tradition of folkish, visionary street art defined by artists like her husband Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Ed Templeton, and Margaret Kilgallen.
Tulip Twins (Triptych) is a banner example of her predilection for peasant art imagery: Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs (a common visual trope in her work) comprise a landscape for Russian peasants; Untitled (Red Feather Flower) features organic, pointed shapes and geometric forms reminiscent of quilting patterns painted in a flatness and limited palette that recalls printmaking, a medium Rojas studied as an undergraduate at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Exhibition


Show Your Work: Art and Math
, June 14, 2017 - May 20, 2018, Koret Family Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

Initial Public Offering: New Works from SJMA’s Permanent Collection, March 1, 2014 - August 24, 2014, New Wing, First floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art.

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